MOONCLIMBINGMOONCLIMBING.COM HOW TO BUILD THE MOON SCHOOL ROOM BOARD 1. AREA REQUIRED - SEE FIG.1...
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MOON CLIMBING.COM HOW TO BUILD THE MOON SCHOOL ROOM BOARD The Moon Schoolroom Board is used buy some of the UK’s top climbers including Malcolm Smith, Ben Moon and Rich Simpson. Building this board and fitting it with a set of Moon holds you will be able train on exactly the same problems these guys are working on. We will be uploading new problems as we change our own board sign up for our news letter and we’ll keep you posted. Building a Moon board is a fairly simple job, however you will need basic carpentry skills, Basic tools (see page 2) and a minimum of two people. The information here is just a guide to how we built our board, however it may vary a great deal depending on your surroundings and its structure. It isn’t necessary to support your moon board exact to ours, but it is essential that your use the same measurements for the angle of the board, height, width and T nut spacing etc. If you have any doubts regarding your board and its structure please seek professional advice. Whilst our information worked for us, we cannot accept responsibility if your board becomes unstable or dangerous. Let us know how you get on, happy climbing!
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MOONCLIMBING.COMHOW TO BUILD THE MOON SCHOOL ROOM BOARD
The Moon Schoolroom Board is used buy some of the UK’s topclimbers including Malcolm Smith, Ben Moon and Rich Simpson.Building this board and fitting it with a set of Moon holds you will beable train on exactly the same problems these guys are working on.We will be uploading new problems as we change our own boardsign up for our news letter and we’ll keep you posted.
Building a Moon board is a fairly simple job, however you will needbasic carpentry skills, Basic tools (see page 2) and a minimum of twopeople. The information here is just a guide to how we built our board,however it may vary a great deal depending on your surroundingsand its structure. It isn’t necessary to support your moon board exactto ours, but it is essential that your use the same measurements forthe angle of the board, height, width and T nut spacing etc.
If you have any doubts regarding your board and its structureplease seek professional advice. Whilst our information worked forus, we cannot accept responsibility if your board becomes unstableor dangerous.
Let us know how you get on, happy climbing!
MOONCLIMBING.COMHOW TO BUILD THE MOON SCHOOL ROOM BOARD
CONTENTS
1. AREA REQUIRED FIG1. AREA REQUIRED / BOARD DIMENSIONS
2. MATERIALS AND TOOLS
3. BUILDING THE KICK BOARD FIG.3 THE KICK BOARD
4. MAIN FRAMEWORK FIG.4 MAIN FRAMEWORK
5. T-NUTTING THE 3 PLYWOOD BOARDS FIG 5. BOTTOM OF 3 BOARDS/DIMENSIONS & OVERVIEW
6. FIXING PLYWOOD SHEETS TO FRAMEWORK
7. MARK OUT THE GRID & SET UP YOUR PROBLEMS
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1. AREA REQUIRED - SEE FIG.1
See fig.1 for overview of Area and board
To build a full Moon board, exact to the one in Sheffield’s SchoolRoom, you will need a minimum area of:
— 3.15m High— 2.44m Wide— 2.35m Deep (for board) although an extra metre or 2 will be needed for space to fall off and rest etc.
However it may be possible to still build a smaller moon board in thespace you have, by shrinking our measurements to suit your area.Although we cannot guarantee that you will be able to replicate all ofour downloadable problems there still should be many possibilities,even if you can only replicate the first few moves of our full problems.
BOARD OVERHANGS BY 2.35M
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FIG1. AREA REQUIRED / BOARD DIMENSIONS
BOARD OVERHANGS BY 2.35M
BOARD LENGTH 3.63M
40º
KICK BOARD 37CM
MINIMUM ROOM LENGTH 3.0M TOTAL(2.35M FOR BOARD)
PLY SHEET 3
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BOARD WIDTH 2.44M
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2. MATERIALS AND TOOLS
Tools
The following tools are basic essentials for building a moon board
— Tape Measure— Pen— Saw— Screw driver— Drill— Hammer
However for easier and quicker building, power tools such as mitresaws, circular saws, electric screw drivers / drills will come in veryhandy.
Materials
The Materials required to build a full Moon board are as follows
— 3 plywood boards 18mm thick and 8ft high by 4ft wide— 1 plywood sheet 8ft wide, by 37cm high for the kickboard— 4 x 2inch by 4inch rough sawn timber 3.63m for framework— 2 x 2inch by 4 inch rough sawn timber 8ft long for kickboard— 200 x M10 T-nuts— Approximately 100 wood screws minimum of 1.5 inch long— Moon School Room Holds
This is just a guide for our moon board, however depending onyour venue and its structure you may need extra materials toattach framework to wall or ceiling. If you are unsure about thebuildings structure and how to attatch your framework seekprofessional advice.
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3. BUILDING THE KICK BOARD - SEE FIG.3
Although the kickboard is fairly simple to build, it is important thatit is solid and attached to either a brick wall or screwed into thefloor, as the main framework will sit on top to the kickboard.Our kickboard was built up against a wall therefore we screwedthrough the frame into the wall joists, which meant it was attachedfirmly. However if you are not able to fix your kickboard to a wallat the rear, it may be possible to screw down into the floor.
a) We first of all built the kickboard frame using rough sawn3 inch by 2 inch timber, See drawing 3a for measurementsand assembly details.
b) Secondly we cut a sheet of 18mm plywood, down to size,and attached our T-nuts in the required position as in picture3b. We then screwed our T-nuttted plywood sheet into theframework which resulted in a completed kickboard.
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FIG.3 THE KICK BOARD
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FRAME FOR KICKBOARD
PLYWOOD SHEETS WHICH COVER FRONT OF KICKBOARD
= SCREWS OR BOLTS INTO WALL= WOOD SCREWS
FRAME BUILT FROM 3BY2 ROUGH SAWN TIMBER
= T-NUTS
T-NUT SPACING1ST ROW: 40CM INTERVALS FROM EITHER SIDE,10 CM UP FROM BASE
2ND ROW: 40CM INTERVALS, 30CM FROM BASE
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4. MAIN FRAMEWORK - SEE FIG.4
e) Fix two down pieces form your top strut down the middle2 frame pieces.
You should now have a solid framework, although depending onyour climbing area more attachments may need to be made intoeither sidewalls or ceiling joists.
The main framework was constructed out of 2 inch by 4 inch roughsawn timber. Again the framework design may need to be alteredslightly depending on your building structure and how you areattaching the framework.
a) Cut 4 lengths of timber to 3.7m and using a mitre saw or protractor cut the bottom of the timber to a 40 degree angle.
b) Fix the top beam to either the ceiling or sidewalls running across the width of the board from a distance of exactly2.35m from your kickboard and a height of 3.15m from the ground. This will enable the correct board angle tobe achieved.
c) Fix your 4 timber struts from the top of your kickboard intothe main top frame, at variable intervals throughout the width of the board.
d) Fix another 2 inch by 4 inch timber along the top of the board approximately 75cm away form your kickboard and again 3.15m from the ground.
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FIG.4 MAIN FRAMEWORK
CROSS BEAM WITH2 DOWNWARD STRUTS
4BY2 INCH TIMBER
3.63M
40º
KICK BOARD 37CM
OVERHANGS BY 40º, OR 2.35M FROMBASE OF KICKBOARD
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70CM APPROX
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KICK BOARD 37CM
TOTAL WIDTH 2.44M
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5. T-NUTTING THE 3 PLYWOOD BOARDS - SEE FIG.5
Due to the systematic design of the Moon board it is essential thatthe T-nuts are drilled and placed in the correct place so that yourT- nutted grid design is exact to ours, which will then allow problemsetting to be straightforward and exact.
To allow the 3 plywood sheets to be drilled exact we clamped oursheets together on top of each other, this also saves time whendrilling through and marking the sheets. We then marked the topsheet ready to drill 10 mm holes straight through, which is wherewe would place the T-nuts.
Once we had drilled out holes through the 3 sheets, we thenhammered the T-nuts into each hole on the back of the plywoodsheets, i.e. the opposite side to which you will climb on. The T-nutsshould be held firmly into the plywood sheets, by just hammering.
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FIG 5. BOTTOM OF 3 BOARDS/DIMENSIONS & OVERVIEW
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6. FIXING PLYWOOD SHEETS TO FRAMEWORK
Once all the sheets have been drilled and T-nutted, they will thenbe ready to be screwed up onto the framework.
Note* It’s important that the first sheet is placed downwards, sothat the first row of t nuts start at 10 cm up and also that the T-nutsare onto the back of the board.
It is also important that the T-nuts are not covered up by theframework; if this is the case it may be necessary to move theoffending piece of framework a few inches to one side.
We fixed our sheets up to the framework by using several 1.5 inchscrews and an electric screw driver. We screwed straight throughthe plywood and into the rough sawn framework several times foreach plywood sheet.
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7. MARK OUT THE GRID & SET UP YOUR PROBLEMS
To enable you to replicate our problems, we have used a simplegrid. This determines what T nuts should be used for each hold.Our grid used letters along the width of the board, in our case fromleft to right we went A to K, and numbers going up the board, inour case from bottom to top, 1 to 18.
To exactly replicate the problems we are training on you will needto use holds from the Moon School set. You can find these in theBolt on Holds section of our website. The full set of School holdscontains 40 hand holds and 20 footholds. All the Moon holds arenumbered and have an orientation mark to indicate which way upeach hold shuld go. Our Problem guide will incicate the hold rotationusing compass directions: N / NE / E / SE / S / SW / W/ NW. Theguide will also list the hold number and grid location.
Your moon board should now be built and ready to be climbed on,all you need to do now is download some boulder problems andset them on your board. It is also possible to randomly scatter someholds around your board which will enable you to make some newproblems up. Let us know how you get on.
Enjoy and be strong.
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